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The man who has positioned himself as a business crusader coming to the rescue of embattled sugar giant Tongaat-Hulett Limited (THL) is facing ongoing claims that he was the mastermind behind one of the most outrageous alleged procurement frauds during.
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EXCLUSIVE: Alleged 28s gang boss ‘captured’ mega rail project – with Prasa’s ‘help’
8 March, 2026
Ralph Stanfield, the alleged head of South Africa’s notorious 28s organised crime gang, and his criminally co-accused wife, Nicole Johnson, appear to have used Prasa’s security chief Alexio Papadopulo to capture chunks of the government’s multi-billion-rand Cape Town central line.
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